I often get asked the question: "Is treatment for genital warts painful?".
The answer to that question is that it really depends on what type of treatment that you decide to go with.
There are many different treatment options that you can choose from.
I will break them into 3 general categories.
1.
Treatment in a doctors office.
2.
Treatment with a lotion or medicine that you buy over the counter.
3.
Treatment using natural products that you can often find in your own home.
In general, the least painful methods are the ones in option #2.
These are treatments for genital warts that you buy over the counter.
They can be lotions or medicines and they only include treatments that are specifically intended for genital warts.
If the treatment is intended for warts on your hands or your feet and you apply it to your penis, vagina or anus, you can expect it to be extremely painful on the borderline of tortuous.
The treatments that I am talking about are called Amoils, Wartrol, etc.
These methods are not painful but they are also not effective.
Most of the time they will not have any effects on your warts at all and if they do, you will not see any effect for a long time.
Sometimes it can take up to 6 months to see a minimum level of effect.
The most painful treatment methods are the methods that your doctor administers.
Your doctor will usually freeze the wart off, burn it off, cut it out, use lasers to get rid of warts or apply substances such as TCA (an acid) which are toxic to the wart but also to normal skin so if not applied carefully, it will also harm your unaffected areas.
On a pain scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being no pain and 10 being the most painful, the methods that your doctor uses to treat genital warts, are all at a 7 or above on the pain scale.
The treatment for genital warts that, in my opinion, maintains the best balance of pain yet effectiveness is option number 3.
This is treating warts, on your genitals, using natural products that you can often find in your own home.
Using these methods you may only feel a small amount of tingling not any intense levels of pain.
This tingling is a sign that the warts are being effectively treated.
You can also expect a lower chance of the warts growing back or returning using this method.